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BC = SHR-1B, wound by Catalina Dadilla.
NO = SHR-1N, wound by Oti Mora.
It is possible to interpret the neck position pickup sticker as reading 3N but that would normally indicate an SM-3N Mini Humbucker.
The only other date I can see is on the volume pot, which is the 25th week of 1987 - R1378725, 137 is the code for CTS - the neck tone pot is mostly obscured with solder, the bridge/middle TBX may have a readable one, but failing that I would say it's an '87 guitar since that's the only definite date.
The pickups are earlier-type Duncan Hot Rails as Funkfingers said.
I wouldn't describe this guitar as 'heavily modified', by the way - it's just the pickups and switches. It's only a replacement pickguard and a set of Fender USA Strat pickups away from being 'original', if you ever want that.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Appreciate what you mean about the mods, i have no idea what the original pickups may have been though, just Fender std American i expect.
Interestingly, it appears that it may have been sunburst originally, going by the neck pocket - but the black looks like a Fender factory finish so it's possibly one that was rejected due to a finish or wood grain fault and oversprayed. (I could be wrong, if you know it's been refinished later.)
Yes - cheap if you want to buy them, because they're not well-regarded and a lot of people take them out to replace with others. To be fair, they aren't great - they're the ones with the non-traditional plastic bobbin construction, and to me sound a bit thin. The combination of them and the TBX tone control seems to be a real tone-sucker. Unless you're really keen on getting it back to original I probably wouldn't bother.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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